Bers"tle (&?;), n. See Bristle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Berth (&?;), n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.] [Also written birth.]
1. (Naut.) (a) Convenient sea room. (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.
3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.
Berth, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berthed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Berthing.] 1. To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.
Ber"tha (&?;), n. [F. berthe, fr. Berthe, a woman's name.] A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
Berth"age (&?;), n. A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
Ber"thi*er*ite (&?;), n. [From Berthier, a French naturalist.] (Min.) A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
Berth"ing (&?;), n. (Naut.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.
Ber"tram (&?;), n. [Corrupted fr. L. pyrethrum, Gr. &?; a hot spicy plant, fr. &?; fire.] (Bot.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).
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Ber"y*coid (br"*koid), a. [NL. beryx, the name of the typical genus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Berycidæ, a family of marine fishes.
Ber"yl (br"l), n. [F. béryl, OF. beril, L. beryllus, Gr. bh`ryllos, prob. fr. Skr. vairya. Cf. Brilliant.] (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
Ber"yl*line (&?;), a. Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.
Be*ryl"li*um (&?;), n. [NL.] (Chem.) A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
Ber"yl*loid (&?;), n. [Beryl + - oid.] (Crystallog.) A solid consisting of a double twelve- sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
{ Be*saiel", Be*saile", Be*sayle" (&?;) }, n. [OF. beseel, F. bisaïeul, fr. L. bis twice + LL. avolus, dim. of L. avus grandfather.] 1. A great-grandfather. [Obs.]
2. (Law) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.
Be*saint" (&?;), v. t. To make a saint of.
Be*sant" (&?;), n. See Bezant.
Bes-ant"ler (&?;), n. Same as Bez- antler.
Be*scat"ter (&?;), v. t. 1. To scatter over.
2. To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
Be*scorn" (&?;), v. t. To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
Be*scratch" (&?;), v. t. To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
Be*scrawl" (&?;), v. t. To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.
Be*screen" (&?;), v. t. To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.
Be*scrib"ble (&?;), v. t. To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." Milton.
{ Be*scum"ber (&?;), Be*scum"mer (&?;), } v. t. [Pref. be- + scumber, scummer.] To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Be*see" (&?;), v. t. & i. [AS. beseón; pref. be- + &?;eón to see.] To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Be*seech" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besought (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeching.] [OE. bisechen, biseken (akin to G. besuchen to visit); pref. be- + sechen, seken, to seek. See Seek.] 1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts.
Shak.
But Eve . . . besought his peace.
Milton.
Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. These words agree in marking that sense of want which leads men to beg some favor. To solicit is to make a request, with some degree of earnestness and repetition, of one whom we address as a superior. To entreat implies greater urgency, usually enforced by adducing reasons or arguments. To beseech is still stronger, and belongs rather to the language of poetry and imagination. To implore denotes increased fervor of entreaty, as addressed either to equals or superiors. To supplicate expresses the extreme of entreaty, and usually implies a state of deep humiliation. Thus, a captive supplicates a conqueror to spare his life. Men solicit by virtue of their interest with another; they entreat in the use of reasoning and strong representations; they beseech with importunate earnestness; they implore from a sense of overwhelming distress; they supplicate with a feeling of the most absolute inferiority and dependence.
Be*seech", n. Solicitation; supplication. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.
Be*seech"er (&?;), n. One who beseeches.
Be*seech"ing, a. Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
Be*seech"ment (&?;), n. The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.
Be*seek" (&?;), v. t. To beseech. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Be*seem" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beseemed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeming.] [Pref. be- + seem.] Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.
A duty well beseeming the preachers.
Clarendon.
What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God ?
Hocker.
Be*seem", v. i. To seem; to appear; to be fitting. [Obs.] "As beseemed best." Spenser.